effort
音标发音
- 英式音标 [ˈef.ət]
- 美式音标 [ˈef.ɚt]
- 国际音标 ['efət]
- 英式发音
- 美式发音
基本解释
- n.努力;努力的成果
词源解说
- 15世纪晚期进入英语,直接源自古法语的esforz;最初源自通俗拉丁语的exfortiare:ex (出) + fortis (强大的),意为展示强大实力。
用法辨析
- effort的基本意思是“力气”“努力”,指做某事所使用的力气和努力,作此解时只用作单数形式,引申表示“努力”“奋斗”,指费力做某事或艰苦的尝试,作此解时是可数名词。effort还可表示“努力的事例”“努力的成果”,即“作品”“成就”,为可数名词。
- effort表示“努力”时,其后可接动词不定式作其定语,偶尔也可接介词短语作定语。
- make efforts, make an effort, make every effort后面常接动词不定式,表示“努力做某事”,接an effort时表示“做一番努力”; 接efforts时表示“作出多次努力”,接every effort表示“每做一次努力”。
- effort指“努力”时,后面跟不定式。His effort to reform her at length succeeded. 他为改变她作出努力最后取得了成功。
- effort指“作品”时,后面跟at和动名词或名词。This is his effort at depicting the peasants. 这是他描绘农民的一幅作品。
- effort指“努力”时,是抽象名词,不可直接用于make后。只能以an effort,efforts,every efforts等形式出现;
- 表示相反的状态时,用without effort或without great effort中,注意是单数effort;
- effort可用于以下句型中:Effort has been made to...(不定式),Effort has been directed to...(介词)或make special effort to...(不定式)等。
n. (名词)
英汉例句
- It doesn't need much effort.
那不需要太多的精力。 - It was a real effort to stay awake through the film.
真要强打着精神才能看完整部电影。 - His maiden effort at authorship was a long tale.
他在写作生涯中的处女作是一部长篇故事。
用作名词 (n.)
~+to- v
~+at n./pron./v-ing
词组短语
- appreciate sb 's effort 感谢某人的努力
- attempt efforts 作努力
- continue one 's efforts 继续努力,再接再厉
- devote one 's effort to 把力量用于…,努力做…
- direct one 's efforts to 把力量用于…,努力做…
用作名词 (n.)
动词+~
英英字典
- physical or mental activity needed to achieve something
- If you make an effort to do something, you try very hard to do it.
- If you say that someone did something with effort or with an effort, you mean it was difficult for them to do.
- An effort is a particular series of activities that is organized by a group of people in order to achieve something.
- If you say that something is an effort, you mean that an unusual amount of physical or mental energy is needed to do it.
- If you make the effort to do something, you do it, even though you need extra energy to do it or you do not really want to.
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专业释义
- 努力
However, the effort of enterprise is not enough.
然而,仅仅靠企业的努力是不够的。语言学
- 努力
They can minimize the effort by the hearer in the pursue of optimal relevance.
话语标记语可以减少听话人在理解话语时所付出的努力,获得话语的最佳关联性。计算机科学技术
- 精力
Software maintainability is a key aspect of quality to software, which directly impact how much effort and cost will be spent on related systems or productions.
软件的可维护性是构成软件质量的一个重要方面,直接决定了在软件系统或产品上需要投入 多大的成本与精力。 - 工作量
- 奋斗
- 工夫
Secondly, the mean of effort is "cautiousness", which has surpassed such experiential dimension as experiences and knowledge.
其次,工夫法门是“慎独”,“慎独”工夫是超越了见闻知识等经验层面的。机械工程
- 作用力
- 影响